Is Julio Rodríguez an Adjustment Away?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR, and Jed discuss news and notes from around the league including injuries for Emmanuel Clase and Cristopher Sánchez and MLB's biggest three-team rivalries, before digging into the new-look Mariners' offense and Julio Rodriguez's slow start on the heels of a slight downturn at the plate in 2024.
Rundown
4:20 MLB's Biggest Hate Triangle
9:17 Why Night Games on Getaway Day are Suboptimal
15:52 Astros Considering Cam Smith in Center Field?
20:13 The Mariners Hitters Are Changing
(Related Reading from 'Leaky Barn': https://swingsandtakes.com/250421-the-mariners-offense-is-rolling)
25:51 Will Julio Rodríguez Click Again Soon?
31:28 Time to Make Another Adjustment on Pitches Away?
42:38 Does Closing Up Stance Help Slim Your Platoon Split?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Jed Lowrie
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Burrell, it's Wednesday, April 23rd. |
| 0:14.7 | Derek and Riper, Unoceris, Jed Lowry here with you on this episode. |
| 0:18.1 | We take a spin around the league at some baseball news you should know, |
| 0:21.6 | but then we're going to dig into the Mariners hitters. Some things are changing with those |
| 0:26.7 | bats in Seattle, and they're doing it despite a slow start from Julio Rodriguez. We'll dig into |
| 0:32.5 | some of the early struggles of Julio Rodriguez, which are probably connected to a downturn in power that we saw from him a season ago. |
| 0:40.3 | We'll try to figure out if there's a way for him to make some adjustments and quickly get back on track here in 2025. |
| 0:46.9 | So a lot of ground to cover today. Be sure to join our Discord. |
| 0:50.5 | If you haven't done so already, you can do that with the link in the show description. |
| 0:54.2 | A couple of injury-related things to get to real quick off the top. |
| 0:57.7 | We wondered, with Cade Smith getting saves on consecutive days against the Yankees to begin the week |
| 1:03.1 | if something might be wrong with Emmanuel Class A. |
| 1:05.2 | And just before we started recording, Stephen Vote told reporters that Emmanuel Class A is dealing with some shoulder discomfort coming off of his most recent appearance on Sunday. |
| 1:14.6 | Did play catch on Wednesday, so for now, no IL stint, but more of a day-to-day thing that we're going to keep an eye on here in the next few days. |
| 1:22.6 | And then we did see that Christopher Sanchez, who left his start early with forearm soreness, |
| 1:30.5 | will not have an MRI at this time. |
| 1:35.1 | So maybe some good news, a little sigh of relief there if you are a Phillies fan or if you've had Ted Sanchez on your roster, you know? |
| 1:38.7 | I definitely was like, oh no, I mean, it was so nice to see him come into camp throwing so hard, but we have seen some |
| 1:47.5 | research from Louis Polis on these Velo increases and how sometimes they can lead to injury. |
| 1:53.8 | And we also just know that generally more Velo means more stress on the elbow. |
| 1:58.2 | So as soon as I saw that, I thought all those things at once |
| 2:01.4 | and was worried about it. But hopefully he'll write the ship and come back because he's a really |
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